CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS 30TH APRIL 2019

WIRRAL
Burton RSPB
Cattle Egrets x3 Field Left Bunker Entrance 
Yellow x1 Wagtail From Bunker 
Ruff x1 Main Scrape 
Mediterranean Gulls x4 Main Scrape
Avocets 70+ Main Scrape
Chiffchaff In Gorse Covert Wood
Blackcap (F) By Willow Pool
Sedge Warbler Near Reedbed Screen
Buzzard x3 Over Marsh Covert Wood
Reed Warbler Reedbed By Marsh Covert Hide
Spotted Redshank x5 Marsh Covert Hide
Garganey (M) Marsh Covert Hide
Black Tern Bridge Pool
Great Crested Grebes x2 Bridge Pool
Grasshopper Warbler (Heard) From Boardwalk
Whitethroat Along Boardwalk
Linnets By Railway Bridge
Great Egrets x4 Burton Marsh 1With Black Bill
Sparrowhawk Over IMF
Swifts Over Burton Point
Hobby Over Burton Point
Lesser Whitethroat (Heard) Railway Bridge
Bar-Tailed Godwit Marsh Covert Hide
Common Sandpiper Marsh Covert Hide

Burton Marsh
4 Great White Egret

Leasowe Lighthouse
Yellow Wagtail flew off the sea and into Kerr's Field and a Redstart(female).

Hilbre Island
3 Kittiwake,Arctic Skua,2 Manx Shearwater,300+ Gannet,600 Sandwich Tern,60+ Common Tern,2 Arctic Tern,9 Tree Pipit and 6 Yellow Wagtail

Thurstaston Hill
5 Crossbill-In Scots Pines and then flew down towards playing fields.

Ellesmere Port
Osprey-Flying low along towpath of Shropshire and Onion canal-Stoak towards Ellesmere Port

Wallasey
2 Common Tern

CHESHIRE
Bickerton Hill
Ring Ouzel-Male still in grass field above main Poole Farm car park 

Marbury Country Park
Whooper Swan and Marsh harrier-Neumann's Flash
Grasshopper Warbler-Haydn's 

Pickerings Pasture
Spoonbill-Adult flew west along River Mersey towards Frodsham Marsh 

Hale
Lesser Whitethroat,Female Redstart,2 Hobby and 2 Corn Bunting

Woolston Eyes
Garganey-N04 Bed

Knutsford
Grasshopper Warbler-Hillside Road-End of Tatton Park

Newchurch Common
Cuckoo-Abbots Moss

Moore Nature Reserve
Cuckoo

Sandbach Flashes
2 Little ringed plover and 2 Common sandpiper-Elton hall flash
Little Owl-Beach Tree farm-Wood lane